Senior Legal Engineer, Legal Products Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
Thomson Reuters21 hours ago
Base Salary
$95k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, test, deploy, and improve AI-powered solutions tailored to complex legal workflows and practice areas.
- Partner with legal customers to conduct discovery sessions, pilots, onboarding, and enablement programs.
- Build and iterate AI workflow prototypes and automations using Python and AI-assisted development tools.
- Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, usability, and safety.
- Design and optimize advanced prompting strategies for specialized legal-domain tasks.
- Develop evaluation frameworks with benchmark datasets, rubrics, and regression checks.
- Train legal teams on AI tools, prompt best practices, and workflow integration.
- Create documentation, playbooks, and knowledge-sharing materials for customers and internal teams.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work and improve customer experience.
Requirements
- JD or LLB is required or strongly preferred.
- At least five years of total professional experience, including at least two years in legal practice at a law firm or in-house legal department, or in a legal technology product role.
- Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
- Comfort with AI tools and AI-assisted development environments.
- Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
- Advanced prompt-engineering skills for designing, testing, iterating, and optimizing legal-domain prompts.
- Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage lawyers and engineers.
- Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and present in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Strong client-facing skills and ability to build trust with lawyers, GCs, and legal leadership.
- Commitment to ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.
- Preferred qualifications include Python scripting, legal technology or legal SaaS experience, legal practice-area AI experience, and familiarity with Thomson Reuters or comparable legal AI platforms.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with flexible arrangements and work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year.
- Flexibility and work-life balance policies, including two company-wide Mental Health Days.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Access to the Headspace app, health and insurance programs, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, commuter benefits, and employee assistance programs.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Eligible locations include Frisco, TX; Toronto, ON; Minneapolis–Saint Paul, MN; and New York, NY, with occasional travel to customer sites possibly required.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.